Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Merrick Lawson, KCB (30 January 1859 – 2 November 1933) was a British Army general during the First World War.

[2] Lawson became General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1910 and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey and Alderney in 1914.

[2] He was critical that too many men were doing "soft jobs" in the war and thereby encouraged the formation of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps.

[8] Finally he was Inspector General of Communications for the Italian Expeditionary Force from 1917 to 1918; he retired from the army in 1921.

At the 1922 general election he stood in the constituency of Portsmouth South in a straight fight losing against sitting Conservative MP Herbert Cayzer.